Woven fabric



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. W. TALBOT.

VWOVEN FABRIC. N0. 37Z,343 Patented Nov. 1, 1887.

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WlLLIAM TALBOT, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

WOVEN FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 372,343, dated November1, 1887.

Application filed April 1, 1886. Serial No. 197,476.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM TALBOT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in WovenFabrics, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to produce a cheap, strong, and durablecarpet or other fabric; and said improvement consists in the combinationof two warps, one a staffer, and two wefts, one finer than the other,two coarse wefts being employed to one fine weft, all as will behereinafter described, referring to the r 5 annexed drawings, making apart of this spccification, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are longitudinalsections showing the collocation of the warp and weft threads. Fig. 3 isa faceor top view of Fig. 1. The drawings are not intended to representthe warp and weft threads as of the proper size, or as driven up in afinished fabric, but are intended to aid those skilled in the art ofweaving in defining the character of the fabric and the preferred mannerof making the same.

My improvement is especially applicable to aclass of fabrics known tothe trade as damask or Venetian carpets, wherein the figure or figuresof the carpet are principally made by the warp-threads, the lattershowing on both sides and the weft-threads showingbut little.

Similar letters in the drawings refer to similar parts throughout theseveral views.

5 A and B represent the figuring warp-threads;

O, the stuffer warp-threads. The threads A and B should be two or threeply, as is usual in damask carpets, and the stuffer single ply or doubleand twisted. The threads A and B are wound on one beam and the threads 0on another. The threads A and B are manipulated by a Jacquard machine toproduce the figure,

' and the threads 0 by one heddle-frame.

D D are the stuffer-wefts, and S S are the 5 binder-wefts.

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To operate these wefts it requires a loom with two shuttle-boxes on eachend of thelay, and so constructed tooperate pick and pick.

The threads A and B are usually of a different color, and two of thesethreads and one stuffer-thread are put into each split of the reed.

It will benoticed in the drawings that there are two shots of the weft Dto one of weft S. The weft S serves to bind the face and back of thefabric together. When the figuring-threads A or B are taken from theface to back, or back to face, the stuffer-thread- 0 serves as a binder,as shown at G, Figs. 1 and 2.

In Figs. 1 and 3the stuffer-threadO is shown on top of the binder-weftsS S. \Vhen so woven all through the fabric, there will be a right andwrong side to' the fabric, the top of that shown in Figs. 1 and 2 beingthe right side. A and B and weft D will when beaten up in the loom beclose together, showing only the figuring-warps A or B and little of theweft D. If it is desired to make both sides of the fabric alike, thestuffer-warp C will be mounted 7c in two heddleframes, every otherstuffer in a different frame, and by this means one stuifer will beplaced on top of the binding-wefts S and the next under the weft S, as,shown in Figs. 1 and 2, and both sides of the fabric will 7 bealike,except in color, which may also be the same if all the threads are ofthe same color. 1

I claim- In a woven fabric, the combination of figur- So ing-warps A andB, stuffenwarp G, and two stuEfer-wefts, D D, to each one binder-weft,S, as shown, described, and for the purpose specified.

W. TALBOT.

Witnesses:

J 0111s SHINN, M. TALBOT.

The cords formed by the figuring-warps

